[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 52 (Wednesday, April 21, 2004)]
[House]
[Pages H2227-H2228]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   IMPLEMENT SYRIA ACCOUNTABILITY ACT

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1

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minute and to revise and extend his remarks and include therein 
extraneous material.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Madam Speaker, several months ago now the President signed 
the Syria Accountability Act, which was passed overwhelmingly by this 
House and the other body. Since that time, however, the act has not 
been implemented; and I believe, as do the vast majority of Members in 
this House and the other body believe, that the time is now to slap 
sanctions on Syria.
  Just the other day, the word came out from Iraq that Syria was 
allowing weaponry to come from Syrian territory into Iraq and 
guerrillas to come from Syrian territory into Iraq to do harm to 
American troops. Syria has not patrolled its border and has allowed 
these anti-U.S. guerrillas to come in and kill our troops.
  Also, the other day in Jordan a plot was discovered where poison gas 
was to have been released and there was to be an attack on the U.S. 
Embassy in Amman, Jordan. It was documented that this gas and these 
attacks came from Syria across the border into Jordan.
  Syria is a major sponsor of terrorism. Syria illegally continues to 
occupy Lebanon, has a weapons of mass destruction program, and, as I 
mentioned before, is allowing its border to be used by terrorists to 
come into Iraq to do harm to U.S. troops. Those are the four things 
that this bill, the Syria Accountability Act, called on Syria to end. 
Syria has not ended, and the President should implement the sanctions 
immediately.

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